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The BIMI certificate cannot be fetched

URGENT

BIMI · Urgent · costs 25 points · BIMI draft 14, section 7.1

What it means

Your record points at a mark certificate that did not load (the offending value). Gmail and the other providers that require a VMC fetch it exactly as we did, so example.com gets no logo from any of them.

How to fix it

Serve the PEM bundle at that exact URL over HTTPS returning 200. Your certificate authority provides the file; it must include the full chain, not just the leaf.

Check your own domain

This page describes the condition. To find out whether your domain has it, run the BIMI test or the full checkup, which examines every record at once.

Understand it properly

This page covers one condition. For the whole picture, BIMI, defined, or start at the Health Library.

Where this comes from

We judge this against BIMI draft 14, section 7.1. Every finding on this site cites the specification behind it so you can check the work rather than take our word for it.

Other BIMI conditions

BIMI_VMC_UNREACHABLE

Every fix on this site is yours to implement. If you would rather someone did it, I take this work directly.